This is Career Planning

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This is Career Planning!
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CWRU Careers In Medicine Program
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CWRU Careers In Medicine Program

• 4-year structured, career planning program
  integrating
• multiple on-line tools, assessments to help you
  through the process with
• class meetings, 1-to-1 meetings with Society
  Deans, student panels, specialty mentors, MSPE
  meetings 4th yr
• Part of our advising program, helps you untangle
  the process and find a career that fits

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Careers In Medicine (aamc.org/careersinmedicine)

• Self assessment closer the match of values,
  needs, aspirations, interests, more satisfied
• Exploring your options specialty pages and tools
  help inform you, find links, use 1 above
• Choosing a specialty review what you know from
  wards, mentors, online tools
• Getting into residency nuts and bolts of
  applications, matching, interviewing, etc

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This is all about FIT!
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Step 1 Self Assessment

• Whats in it for me?
• Too busy
• Will have an aha moment on the wards
• Already know what I want to do

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Self Assessment Whats in it for you?

• First step in career planning
• Foundation for fit
• Helps you to think about yourself a little
  identify values, likes, strengths, personal needs
  and requirements, etc
• Helps you organize your thoughts
• Lots of online tools to help here

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Self Assessement Tools

• SIS specialty indecision score
• 35 item
• MSPI medical specialty preference inventory
• 16 specialies
• PVIPS physicians values in practice scale
• 60 items measuring core values
• We would like you to do at least one of these
  before your 1-0n-1 meeting with your SD in block 4

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Finding a Medical Career

• Remember, this process should be fun and
  informative
• Data will change as you learn more, become active
  on the wards
• We will ask you to try these scales again as you
  progress through med school
• We will introduce you to new tools as you go
  forward
• Play with the website
• We are here to help you find a great fit